Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-10-22
IN THE SAECTUll.
Some Experiences in Newspaper
 Office,
onpprtunltiss of Journaiists tO Mrestlo Mith Great Wrongs and Get
 Knocked Out of shape.

Grown up men Sery often express tue wish that they mighl be boys again. They wish they once more could go pack to ,he tune when they used tO ba.he ID the mill pond, and permit the yielding mud to squirt mp between the
 weather beaten toes for half a day at Q time; wien hath like this always pro- duced Q healthy glow on their skins abont twenty minutes sitter they got home.
 They yearn to go back half century to the days when they could es. anything that grew or walked upon the face ofthc earth. or flew ID the sky above, or swan in the waters beneath, and yet feel no romorse. Some hsve even said that they would be willing tO go back there and turn the grindstone while a heavy and remorseless parent got up and rode on Il for an hour at a time, n order that they might once more know lhs sweet, com plete, and obliyiOus sleep of vigorous boyhOod.
 To those who nlay pant to turn the gr:nis.one orce more ID order to win the largest amount Oi fGtIgue in given period of time, let me iatroduce the yrini5tJne of 6n active newspaper, WhareOn various people seek tO sharpen their private axes, usandme impress;ng on the boy who is turning U that they are doing it purely for his good.
 The number ot opportunities thst 6 daily paper has iu tEenty-fOur hours for jumping on Q great wrong with both feet while the gentleman whO furnishes the information cuucoals himself m cy- o!one-cal,aT that opens wIth time lock. is Gimply RppalGog.
 IL n cold ard extremly bleak day when from twenty Co fifty men canEo; b. found who are willing to drop in and furnish information, provided their uas,es are not mentioned, winch wil .h | iIe city from center .o cItcUm- ference ard result ID the violent death uf tbc editor.
 Tle8 the-e is the anony ymOus man, who writes Q bIg, d50psicsl letter, iE which Ia cCus.5 lnve5tlgstlon-for an other man.
 There IS also the gentlemen who wish es to raise B fund for his own widow. He has been all his lie a man who has laOCFei for the uneliOTatlon Ot mall kind; but now; before he has got msn- kind more than half ameliOsated, be finds himself unable to so on and complete the job. He hEs tried to accomplish his great work by meaus of a lecture which Ee hss been giving at fifty dollars per pop? He nOw finds that the general public, with orc mad impulse. remains away from the lsctGIe and he thinks that inc general public ous ht tO be shown up.
 Another gentleman, who has been blown ID by g gasoline stove, while in ;he discharge of his duty, writes tO say ;hg. q Cataract ia forming over one eye, and prominent optinist has told him that some day he TiIl have to do all his seeing with one eye. The cataract has already grown s0 large that he csn almost hear 1t roar. Hedesires friend, and hopes She American people will avoid the stigmatism Of allowing a deserving man to go n debt or else borrow the money. He says however, that he hkes the paper first rate.
 Another man hgs been spoken to by great many people about running for ss- sessoT of bis town. He does not wish 70 do go. for he dor .. need II, and is Is e thsnkless job; but the way property was assessed last yeSr in his place, ought to be shown up, and it would do much good. He would be willing to write piece for the psIeT, gIv!ag the inside facts about t, it LIs DaL,e could Es kept out of the matter. lie has often heard that in such things you can rely on Q office Co preserve the strict est eccrecy, and he would be wiling Go take the risk of pr5par;ng euch an srti- cig, with The uni5rstaGdia z that It shall 90 IT. as editorial. lie would deny him self the cure and .auCgb!s !1y of author ship. allowing the edi,OrIsi, and the edi tor also. to be dOubl- Heated, while he DOdcstiy aGd gnUa.GLtatIJusly r6 manned ia EGroFe.
 IEe freo5oTn American citizens who desires Gn OppOIuni,y ia set up on the top Ct e newspaper column in order to saCOt of his mouth Rt Bt personal enc my and then becomes extremely else where. Is said tO be on the increase. The supply ls 60 much greater tEsn the demand, that the f'ol-E!.ler ought iO have mO-e help m his office.
 A day a. thc editorial griudstone | where people come C. write articles oI | health, which CJ1tHin covert aiiUsicns | to thcIr stylo of cod-liver oil; where | the mEn comes who has just bought | an option on queens only to see hIs | means going down she alley accom- Panied by tL.Ce jucEs and short vais led revolver, where people conRre- gate Eho desire to raise funds for 8 charitable object and sct ss treasurer; where men vhO pine for change | cam5 Co suggest now to accomplish r. and also g good man for the place. would | satisfy most anyone who ceSiTed lew hours of contact with a certain style of